The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 47

The love the people bore King Peridor was so strong, and the reward he promised was so large, that in the twinkling of an eye every man, woman, and child had fled into the fields, and the towns were quite empty.

Who acts: people, love, bird, reward, child, towns · What happens: bear, be, promise, flee · To what, where: King, reward, fields

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, love, bird, reward), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 love	det
2	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 strong	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 people	det
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bore	nsubj
5	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 love	acl:relcl
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bore	obj
7	Peridor	Peridor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 King	flat
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 strong	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 strong	advmod
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 large	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 large	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 reward	det
14	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 large	nsubj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 promised	nsubj
16	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 reward	acl:relcl
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 large	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 large	advmod
19	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 strong	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 that	punct
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 large	obl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 twinkling	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 twinkling	det
24	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 that	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 eye	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 eye	det
27	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 twinkling	nmod
28	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 twinkling	appos
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 woman	punct
31	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 man	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 fled	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 fled	cc
34	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fled	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 fled	aux
36	fled	flee	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 strong	conj
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 fields	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 fields	det
39	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 fled	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 empty	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 empty	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 towns	det
43	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 empty	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 empty	cop
45	quite	quite	ADV	_	46 empty	advmod
46	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 strong	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 strong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past	the people	King			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient
2	is	past	the love			strong property	tree rules
3	promise speech: promise	past	bird	the reward not said here			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent reward=Theme
4	is	past	the reward			that obl; large property	tree rules
5	flee	past · perfect	child		the fields		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location
6	is	past	the towns			empty property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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